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President Romney

THE-Ave.US was the first media to break the news that Mitt Romney was going to run for Apostle of the Mormon Church rather than seeking a second term as President. Click here for timely stories about the Presidency under Mitt Romney.

SUNDAY REVELATIONS

Every Sunday, THE Ave begins with a story about religion. Sometimes these are quotes from one of the bibles, other times they stories about how religious and anti religious people behave. Hopefully there is enough balance to please, offend, or stimulate folks who care about what is done in the name or names of deities. READMORE HERE.

THE Ave Scene

OK ..this is where we live … on the gentriest street in Seattle’s gentrifying Capital Hill neighborhood. THE-Ave, talks about a broader scene .. centered on the UW but including the arts, the food, the politics, the “scene” surrounding UW. The best way to see some of this gentler side of THE Ave is to click the map.

UW

Clicking this logo will bring you to a magazine coverage of the UW unlike anything on the UW campus. This lede will take you to other stories about the UW … the athletic department’s budget, the lack of free speech on campus, fights with Cougar U over their desire to make a rival medical school, racism in the Athletic Department, achievements of UW faculty that do not get heralded, relations with the city and state, and more.

ROGER RABBIT

Roger is our resident Chief Justice of the cabbage patch. A former judge and a former journalist, this furry creature is cynical about most things, legalistic about law, and even .. at times … good at making fun.

BUCHENWALD: The Pain Continues

This tragic LEDE relates efforts by my brother and sister to destroy my father’s heritage as the commanding officer of the first American medical company to enter Buchenwald. Robert Schwartz’s pictures rot in a safe in Boston. My wife and I fight in the courts to get these preserved and released into the public domain before all the survivors die and can no longer see the pictures from April 1945.

Archive for March 16th, 2011

Now that the Ave has discussed impeachment of one African American, it seems only fair to discuss how to impeach another one ….. (Mar. 3, 2011) — On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency rather than face impeachment and indictment for his involvement in the Wat[...]

Ed. It is about time. ALL blasphemy should be considered protected speech. Why can’t evolutionists and creationists get along like humans and dinosaurs did? Unlike many other states, Texas does not ban workplace discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, or marital status. [...]

“America’s current circumstances are certainly serious. But there is a proven path forward, one that the United States has traveled with great success before: the rising path of innovation. After the Civil War and World War II, in particular, America restored its economic momentum with great[...]

Shahbaz Bhatti died a martyr, says the Archbishop of Canterbury Click for full BBC story Mr Bhatti was killed in an ambush by Taliban gunmen as he drove away from his mother’s home on 2 March. He had been the Pakistan government’s only Christian cabinet minister until his assassination i[...]

Over at SLOG, Goldy has a fascinating post. In 1989 only 18 voters cast ballots countywide in the King County Conservation District (KCCD) election. The last election had a turnout of 4 votes per thousand voters. Moreover, voting is EXPENSIVE. King County Elections charges a per-voter fe[...]

Pharyngula has been down for several days as have several other blogs housed under Scienceblogs. PZ Myers, the blogger at Pharyngula, * reports: PZ tweeted 6 hours ago: New info: We ARE under a DDoS attack, and it’s coming from Turkey and Qatar. * for those who do not know, Pharyngula is a ver[...]

from SimplyShrug, Ed. “Simply Shrug “calls itself “Simply Shrug – Pragmatic Conservativism.” I suspect few people who read TA ever get to see this sort of material . When we do hear it, e.g. from Beck, there is a sad tendency to dismiss it as rhetoric or “wi[...]

UW TOPS IN PRIMARY CARE AND NIH RESEARCH! Ed. A few days ago we posted a riposte to Congressman McDermott because he failed to site the UWSOM in an article he authored in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. His article talked a lot about the importance of primary care and physicians[...]

The combination of tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy and funding for the endless wars during a "jobless recovery" ensures we will have a citizenry best described as desperate and clueless. Edward Berneays, Hugo Chavez, more: News analysis from t r u t h o u t
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